Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a hot topic in the creative world. Not only does it impact many aspects of society, but AI is also causing concern among writers. Given the significant impact of AI on music and film, many literary discussions have directly addressed the role of AI.
With Chat GPT's algorithm, composing a poem, a short story, a play, or a novel using commands is not overly complicated. In fact, observers are concerned that even book reviews or literary debates are being conducted using AI.
Although no competition or newspaper has yet advised authors against using AI, most editors and readers are wary of writing that smells of formulas and AI language. Certainly, AI is not just a story for 2025; many more negative consequences will arise from AI in the future if authors do not know how to cultivate their emotions and personal identity in their works.
Let's listen to the reflections of two Vietnamese writers from different generations. Writer Ta Duy Anh argues: "The human brain has about 85 billion neurons... This is a purely numerical and scientific matter, so it's self-evident. Therefore, deciphering the human brain, if successful, would likely take millions or billions of years, meaning it's impossible. This is the basis for optimists not believing that robots can usurp human power."
Writer Van Thanh Le affirmed: "A true literary creator will always strive for literature in the truest sense, one that only accepts the kind of sentiment that 'each person is a world unto themselves,' something that no technology can program to 'manipulate,' ensuring that the work always bears the personal imprint and creativity of the author."
Since the advent of GPT Chat, literature has also been significantly impacted. With just a command, anyone can instruct GPT Chat to write a speech, an essay, or even something similar to a literary work. Previously, many people have used artificial intelligence (AI) to assist with writing, with software like Sudowrite, Jasper, or Writesonic.
However, GPT chat, at a more advanced technological level, poses a greater threat to human capabilities. On many forums, there have been suggestions on how to "borrow" GPT chat to write code for others in order to make money from them.
Writer Y Ban expressed: “Social media is heavily influencing reading and writing, easily tempting those who want to write quickly and become famous fast. They want to write quickly without having had time to live, experience, or deeply think, so they turn to Google or use GPT chat. With data and the most brilliant minds behind AI, humans can become dependent on it. However, no AI can replace the thoughts and feelings, the things that belong to the heart.”
In America, a few decades ago, the public was wary of the encroachment of machines into the field of literary creation. Since 1984, the poetry collection "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed," by author Racter, sparked a debate. The rhyming lines, such as "I need electricity/I need it more than I need lamb or pork or cabbage or cucumbers/I need it to dream," were extremely unusual and captivating, but few accepted them as poetry. Why? Because Racter wasn't a real, flesh-and-blood author.
Racter is the name of a computer software program. Racter was used to experiment with writing poetry, measuring the extent to which machines could imitate human language. Compared to Racter, Chat GPT is hundreds or thousands of times more advanced. However, whether Chat GPT can produce poetry that is convincing enough for humans is not a simple matter. Even humans cannot clearly define the fixed form of poetry, so algorithms cannot bridge the gap between poets and machines. Even if programmers "implant" rules of poetry writing into Chat GPT, Chat GPT cannot write verses with the distinct style of a true poet.
For a long time, computer experts have used poetry as a criterion to define the different stages of artificial intelligence development. Of course, randomly mixing existing data is not literary creation, and certainly not poetry. Artificial intelligence (AI) might defeat a world champion chess player, but it could hardly subdue a poet who consciously dedicates to life the poignant reflections distilled from their own joys and sorrows.
Poetry is not the art of precision, with a fixed number of words in a specific order. Therefore, Chat GPT only produces soulless, patchwork verses. Don't think that Chat GPT's ability to produce catchy phrases at lightning speed is the end of the poet's role. Praising a poem created by Chat GPT is glorifying artificial art. Chat GPT creates poetry through the manipulation of a "mischievous" wordsmith.
Machines are not capable of the same thoughtful reflection as humans. Machines only synthesize and reason differently from humans, but they cannot be exactly like humans. The value of a poem lies in the deepest human consciousness—suffering or joy, separation or reunion, even misfortune has many facets—which Chat GPT cannot comprehend or replace.
Artificial intelligence continues to advance in natural language, but literary works created using AI technology have yet to prove their persuasive power. While algorithms are constantly being upgraded to find the most suitable words and arrange them in the most intricate ways, they only create surprise, not emotion. Certainly, no algorithm can program human emotions.
Vietnamese writers have mixed feelings about AI technology, but what about writers in other countries? The famous Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun, whose works have been translated into Vietnamese such as "Yellow Flowers of My Homeland," "I Am Liu the Leaping," and "Mobile Phone ," stated during a reader interaction in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of October 2025: "Someone has used artificial intelligence to simulate my writing style, techniques, and creative characteristics to create a work. Simulating my previous works is possible, but asking AI to create my next work is impossible. Because that work is in my head, and AI can't be in my head and know what I'll do next."
Writer Liu Zhenyun also believes that everything is changing very rapidly at present, with the remarkable development of artificial intelligence being an inevitable law of the times. However, some things change very slowly, such as the fact that the human spirit remains quite similar over 2,000 years ago and now. For example, mothers still love their children very much, and children are very filial to their parents. These changes are very slow because they relate to human nature, the soul, and emotions.
In the digital age, perhaps each of us needs to understand that the core of artistic creation lies in humanity and affirm the artist's role as the "powerful force" in the creative process. Machine-based algorithms can only copy and rework existing human ideas; they cannot create works that contain inspiration, new ideas, reflection, human nature, and the result of diligent effort. Therefore, true creativity belongs only to humanity.
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